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The spark that has molded my life and, like Jack, pulled me out of a rough childhood and the feeling of being able to entertain and help others through with stories told in sequential art. Jack and Joe (photo by Hunter Canning) The play bills itself as "The hysterical and heartbreaking true story of artist Jack Kirby, "the[...]

She applied for the job because, "I've been working in the purely inked style for my recent work on 'and…All That Jazz' so this was actually great practice for me in the inked, graphic style of Frank Miller," Bauman acknowledged. Her crossover work between theatre and comics is what solidified Bauman's position on the production crew[...]

His comics are consistently good, his work ethic is enviable and above all else he's a friendly, humble and sincere guy He's a star on the rise with high profile comics at both Marvel and DC (an uncommon feat) and a smash-hit with Letter 44, a creator-owned work published by Oni Press The 7th issue[...]

We will be rolling out a new, modernized participations payment plan effective July 1, 2014. DCE's current participation plan dates back over 30 years and was created for a simpler and very different marketplace.  The current plan no longer reflects today's business landscape where comics are sold in a variety of formats and through a myriad[...]

As Zenescope launch their "Red Carpet variants" for their line of Grimm Fairy Tales comics. A look at a few upcoming comic book variant covers… all in one place. Such as issues of Titan's Doctor Who series, exclusive to San Diego Comic Con Skottie Young's two covers from Superior Spider-Man #32 and Amazing[...]

It's currently unknown if any of the X-Men will ever return to the comics, but if they do it won't be for quite a while. The X-Men as we know them will cease to exist by the end of Axis Whatever this means, the end result is that the X-Men are finished For the second time[...]

And while comics have had moments portraying supercharacters in jail, only DC's Hard Time did this with any gusto. And its one that seems to be influenced, stylistically at least, by Netflix drama Orange Is The New Black. And that's a great cover by Carl Yonder… I confess, I am the kind[...]

From Marvel... Click to make it work... At the end of Marvel's Infinity series, Thanos was trapped in amber, thanks to one of the powers of his son. Well,

It looks like Image Comics has a new hit on their hands I understand that not only has Outcast #1 by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta sold out of its print run from Diamond Comic Distrubutors (out in stores tomorrow and going to second print for next month) but that its total sales dwarf both[...]

Wednesday, June 25th Carmine Street Comics at 34 Carmine Street in New York will host the Release Party for The Remnants #4 at 5PM They say: "Gonna be hanging out with the great guys over at Carmine Street Comics spectacular new, full-color release Come by for signings, and cool giveaways!" Wednesday, June 25th Bergen Street Comics at 470[...]

Last year, Karen Berger walked away from DC Comics after thirty-two years During that period, she rose to the Executive Editor of the Vertigo line which she created establishing a long line of mature readers comic books and graphic novels, including Y The Last Man, Hellblazer, Preacher, Fables, Kill Your Boyfriend, Pride Of Baghdad and Invisibles,[...]

And that a previous case that went against the Kirby estate could, according to this brief "jeopardizes the statutory termination rights that many Guild members may possess in works they created." THR sets out that, Most people know that the copyright term has gotten longer and longer over the years, but what is less appreciated is that when[...]

This week sees the publication of 2000AD's Prog 1887 and also the return of Rebellion's  Brass Sun series for issue #2 (issue #1 went to reprint

I've just returned from Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend, one of the most comics creator-driven cons in the country, and my swag was such that I had to climb on a chair to take this aerial shot. So, we have the Skottie Young designed t-shirt for the con, a sticker for Heroes Aren't[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to discuss this week's upcoming books, speculating about where they are headed, and discuss their favorite storylines Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Welcome back to another episode! Folks, there's a ton of[...]

38 items total. 1) EX-CON #1 Covers: Tim Bradstreet Writer: Duane Swierczynski Art: Keith Burns MARKETING DESCRIPTION: Dynamite is proud to Ex-Con, the next book in a series of creator driven comics – with The Creators Unleashed, featuring all new concepts and characters from the industry's best and brightest! This month, we present Ex-Con, written by Duane Swierczynski (Cable, Deadpool,[...]

If you look at the Dark Horse solicitations for Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #9, you wouldn't know that artist Freddie E. Williams II was contributing

By Jared Cornelius It's a beautiful Friday afternoon and my fiancé and I have made the hour trek to enjoy the spectacle of Wizard World Philly.  As we arrive at the convention center it's clear to me the annual event has been going strong as costumed fans stroll down 12th Street.  A fan cosplaying as Gambit[...]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-155.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 155 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we get pulled under by Detective Comics #32, go on a field trip with Infinity Man & The Forever People #1, stick em up for That's Because You're a Robot, put our[...]

When you read pulp characters like Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler, they are complex, and don't want their assignments, but get drawn into "webs" and end up being "flawed heroes". Barbiere speculated that "post-Millenial" comics feel the need to be "needlessly complicated" and that leads to audiences identifying pulp heroes as overly simple, and in Five[...]

There's a lot to be said about The Wicked + The Divine #1. And thankfully writer Kieron Gillen has said most of it right here. Some things I'm glad I got,

  Beginning in October, the new and the old, 75 years after the publication of Marvel Comics #1 in 1939, the comic that would give the publisher its name decades later. Bruce Timm adapts Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge, the prose stpry fron 1941 and Stan Lee's first creative work for Marvel. James Robinson and Chris Samnee recreate the birth of the[...]

By Ian Mageto Ian Mageto, Bleeding Cool's Senior Cosplay Correspondent and Comics and Cosplay host joins us this week to count down the Top 10 Most Influential People in the world of Cosplay This list isn't just who is hot or who has the best cosplay, but giving credit to those individuals who have had a[...]

From Funko... a set of Pop Vinyl figure sets, exclusive for San Diego Comic Con, the Ghostbusters, as well as a Re-Action figure for the Rocketeer. RT TO

The second arc of God is Dead, entitled Book of Acts, takes the form of a 2 part all-star team up under the guidance of series writer Mike Costa. In

Peter & Maria Hoey By Nikolai Fomich Philadelphia's Locust Moon Comics has announced a Kickstarter campaign for their oversized hardcover anthology, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Inspired by cartooning and animation pioneer Winsor McCay's classic Little Nemo in Slumberland, this original work will revisit McCay's Slumberland world and feature "an almost impossibly star-studded lineup of over one[...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Usagi Yojimbo. Mouse Guard and Mice Templar. And now... Squarriors. By Ashley Witter and Ash Maczko. Turning squirrels into

Mary Sue managed to get a response.., even if it doesn't seem to ally with the facts as portrayed. So what else were you reading this week? Top Twenty Traffic Stories Of The Week Humiliated At SE:NYC – A Cosplayer's Story Hail Hydra! Possibly The Coolest Marvel T-Shirt Ever First Look At The Guardians Of The Galaxy Cartoon Naming Today's Original[...]

And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story. But hey ho, away we go In for a penny… Hulk #3 and #4 are getting second prints (one with a Daniel Opena cover, the other with a Mark Bagley cover). Ahead of the Death Of Wolverine, Wolverine #8[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running reports of next spring's DC Comics event which will see twenty two-part stories published over two months with a weekly series running through it, forty-eight issues in all. Last week we heard the news that we were to expect to see plenty of Pre-52 characters meeting others, which conjured the image[...]